27 April, 2016

Washington launches its attack against BRICS

by Paul
Craig Roberts

Having
removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of
Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.

Washington
used a federal judge to order Argentina to sacrifice its debt
restructuring program in order to pay US vulture funds the full value
of defaulted Argentine bonds that the vulture funds had bought for a
few pennies on the dollar. These vultures were called “creditors”
who had made “loans” regardless of the fact that they were not
creditors and had made no loans. They were opportunists after easy
money and were used by Washington to get rid of a reformist
government.

President
Kirchner resisted and, thus, she had to go. Washington concocted a
story that Kirchner covered up an alleged Iranian bombing in Buenos
Aires in 1994. This implausible fantasy, for which there is no
evidence of Iranian involvement, was fed to one of Washington’s
agents in the state prosecutor’s office, and a dubious event of 22
years ago was used to clear Kirchner out of the way of the American
looting of Argentina.

In Brazil,
Washington has used corruption insinuations to get President Rousseff
impeached by the lower house. Evidence is not necessary, just
allegations. It is no different from “Iranian nukes,” Saddam
Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” Assad’s “use of
chemical weapons,” or in Rousseff’s case merely insinuations.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis
Almagro, notes that Rousseff “hasn’t been accused of anything.”
The American-backed elites are simply using impeachment to remove a
president who they cannot defeat electorally.

In short,
this is Washington’s move against the BRICS. Washington is moving
to put into political power a rightwing party that Washington
controls in order to terminate Brazil’s growing relationships with
China and Russia.

Kirchner and
Rousseff’s “crimes” are their efforts to have the governments
of Argentina and Brazil represent the Argentine and Brazilian peoples
rather than the elites and Wall Street. In Washington these are
serious offenses as Washington uses the elites to control South
American countries. Whenever Latin Americans elect a government
that represents them, Washington overthrows the government or
assassinates the president.

Washington
is close to returning Venezuela to the control of the Spanish elite
allied with Washington. The presidents of Ecuador and Bolivia are
also targeted. One reason Washington will not permit its British
lapdog to honor the asylum Ecuador granted to Julian Assange is that
Washington expects to have its own agent back in as President of
Ecuador, at which time Assange’s asylum will be repealed.

Washington
has always blocked reform in Latin America. Latin American peoples
will remain American serfs until they elect governments by such large
majorities that the governments can exile the traitorous elites,
close the US embassies, and expel all US corporations. Every Latin
American country that has an American presence has no future other
than serfdom.